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Leon Perniciaro

@leonp.bsky.social

255 followers 219 following 118 posts

In words, alas, drown I. Editor of @HavenSpec.bsky.social. English PhD candidate at @UConn.bsky.social. He/him.

Leon Perniciaro @leonp.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"Scientists trained AI on dogs and bees and then asked the model to create dogs with bees in their mouths and when they bark they shoot bees at you" We should be very alarmed

Screenshot of a New York Times article titled "This A.I. Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature." The article's author is Carl Zimmer. The text under the title reads: "Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes. Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses."

The quote in the post is from the season 5 episode of the Simpsons "Burns' Heir"

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Leon Perniciaro @leonp.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

If a tree falls in my backyard (and crushes our swing set), but no one's around to hear it, does it make a sound?

Image of a tree that fell in our backyard, crushing our swing set.

Different angle of the tree that fell in our backyard, crushing our swing set.

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Leon Perniciaro @leonp.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

My kid goes back to school next week, so today we're at a big bouncy thing at the mall, and boy is my age showing

Picture of an enormous outdoor bouncy structure called Fun Box.

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Leon Perniciaro @leonp.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Took a break yesterday from working on my dissertation to go to Cave Comics in Newtown, and check out this weird Archie comic I found

Archie #616 (2011). The cover shows Barack Obama and Sarah Palin as superheroes fighting each other.

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Leon Perniciaro @leonp.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Omg my mom had a sheep suddenly appear at her house this year! The farm animals are rising up!

A sheep sheepishly looking up at the camera in my mom's backyard.

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Leon Perniciaro @leonp.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I guess they finally built a better mousetrap

News article from the Guardian about Chuck E. Cheese getting arrested for credit card fraud.

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Leon Perniciaro @leonp.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Headed to Readercon this afternoon and omg there's still so much to do before I go, but I can't wait to see all those lovely folks I only get to see once a year! Here's my schedule if anybody is interested :)

Readercon 2025 schedule for Leon Perniciaro. The full schedule is at https://schedule.readercon.org/.

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Leon Perniciaro @leonp.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

So much snow at my mom's house in New Orleans. More than in my whole lifetime

Snow in New Orleans, covering an elevated house and a tropical-looking tree.

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Leon Perniciaro @leonp.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

The devil's only friend

Fire in a fireplace, with a thermometer showing 59 degrees fahrenheit.

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